Andrew Fountain
Senior Frontend Developer at Spotlight Retail Group (SRG)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Fountain is a Senior Frontend Developer in Melbourne with 11 years' experience obsessively focused on JavaScript and front-end architecture across large retail and SaaS platforms. He combines deep vanilla-JS understanding with practical expertise in frameworks (Angular, React, Vue) and a knack for deconstructing libraries—evidenced by contributions to the Rambda functional library and building tooling like webpack/gulp plugins and a promise-tree router to modernize legacy jQuery sites. Known as a teacher and "go-to" engineer, he scopes and architects features, mentors teams, and thrives on debating design choices to find pragmatic solutions. Currently exploring WebRTC-based P2P streaming, he is learning low-level binary protocols, sockets and streams to drive cost-efficient, scalable media delivery.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
typescript10
f10
typescript-types10
functionfs10
functional-programming10
typescripts10
functional-programming-language10
benchmark9
unit-testing9
jquery9
benchmarking9
foreach9
html9
lodash8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
selfrefactor/rambda
Feb 2020 - May 2022
Typescript focused FP library similar to Remeda and Rambda
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 30 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew significantly contributed to the Rambda library by implementing and documenting new functional programming methods, including lenses, `applySpec`, `converge`, and `objOf`, enhancing its utility and feature set. They also refactored and updated existing functions to improve code maintainability and efficiency. Additionally, the user added comprehensive tests and benchmarks, ensuring the quality and performance of the added and modified functions. Furthermore, they worked on improving the structure of the codebase and updated the documentation, which resulted in a robust library.
smallerfunctional-programminglodashjavascriptramda
synthet1c/bitbucket-tracker
Jul 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:31 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 11 months
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